Spark Gears Up To Supersize Its Takanini Data Centre

Spark’s COO Mark Beder is excited about the potential of the company’s Takanini data centre, which will join the recently updated Mayoral Drive data centre. This will give customers extra capacity in a business they consider to be a growth opportunity. Spark will soon face competition from hyperscalers such as Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. In addition to conventional data centres and cloud, Spark now offers edge compute and co-location space in its old telephone exchanges. These buildings are used to house Spark’s core technology, such as the optical transport network, access networks and the core mobile network. This enables projects such as the AI-powered computer vision pilot developed for EnviroWast.